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14 Best Eye Creams
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More cosmetic than skincare
The second ingredient in this eye cream is fragrant orange fruit water, which isn’t what you want to apply around your eyes, or elsewhere on the face for that matter. Fragrance is never skin care. For an obscene price, you’re getting mostly fragrant plant water, silicone, water-binding agent, and a film-forming agent (think hairspray) that can make skin look temporarily smoother. ReVive includ...read morees some antioxidants and an anti-irritant, but the main point of difference this brand has is its use of growth factors. Epidermal growth factor (EGF) and fibroblast growth factor (FGF; fibroblasts are specialized cells that generate skin’s collagen) are included in teeny amounts in this formula. There is no research showing that topical application of these growth factors can firm or lift skin or remedy any other eye-area woe, such as puffiness or dark circles. Topical application of growth factors is controversial for many reasons, but the primary concern is that growth factors may stimulate the proliferation of cells to the point where their normal, healthy growth goes haywire. Such uncontrolled growth is the blueprint for cancer, and that’s not a good tradeoff for lineless skin (which this product doesn’t provide). The inclusion of growth factors makes this a product I can’t recommend despite the inclusion of some beneficial ingredients. The good news is that growth factors are not expected to have much, if any, effect when applied topically because, according to the textbook Cosmetic Dermatology (2nd Edition, 2009, by Dr. Leslie Baumann MD), it is unknown if growth factors in skin-care products, which aren’t required to prove their claims, “are stable, can be absorbed adequately, or exert a functionally significant outcome to induce dermal remodeling and reverse photoaging” due to the lack of well-controlled studies. Still, it is precisely the unknowns surrounding topical application of various growth factors that warrant a cautionary approach to their use, if you even use them at all. By the way, the glow this product provides is a cosmetic brightening effect, courtesy of titanium dioxide and talc. This product is neither special nor worth the price ReVive charges, but there you have it.This review is: Helpful | Not helpful | Inappropriate | 0 of 2 people said helpful
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